New Year’s Resolutions for Energy Ministers

 

1. Think small to slow down climate change; think microgeneration.
2. End massive subsidies for wind farms and photovoltaic electricity
3. Develop and energy policy, rather than an electricity policy
4. Use the law to require all homes to be insulated to a decent standard
5. Use Council Tax reductions as an incentive for microgeneration
6. Stop wood burning power stations
7. Force fossil fuel power stations to use the best smoke washing and air cleaning technology
8. Force cars buses and lorries to limit their engine sizes and their pollution emissions
9. Stop looking for one big solution; climate change was caused by many small events which accumulate
10. A bit of humility and less boasting would help the intellectual environment

Aberdeen Plans to reduce Council Tax as a Renewable Energy Incentive

While Greg Barker, Minister at the department of Energy and Climate Change, struggles to get the Renewable Heat Incentive up and running in a logical and coherent form and struggles to respond to an enquiry from my Member of Parliament Mike Freer about the lack of certainty in the RHI, the Scots seem to be getting on with decarbonising heat and delivering a cleaner more emission from Scotland that puts DECC to shame. In particular the City of Aberdeen has managed, without much fuss and a great deal less angst and much more common sense than that has been displayed by the chaps at DECC.